Re: [RFC patch 2/3] genirq: Add buslock support for irq chips onslow busses

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri Aug 14 2009 - 04:51:20 EST


On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 19:40 +0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>
> +/**
> + * disable_slowbus_irq - disable an slowbus irq and wait for completion
> + * @irq: Interrupt to disable
> + *
> + * Disable the selected interrupt line. Enables and Disables are
> + * nested.
> + * This function waits for any pending IRQ handlers for this interrupt
> + * to complete before returning. If you use this function while
> + * holding a resource the IRQ handler may need you will deadlock.
> + *
> + * This function must not be called from IRQ context.
> + */
> +void disable_slowbus_irq(unsigned int irq)
> +{
> + struct irq_desc *desc = irq_to_desc(irq);
> +
> + if (!desc || !desc->chip || !desc->chip->bus_lock)
> + return;
> +
> + desc->chip->bus_lock(irq);
> + disable_irq_nosync(irq);
> + if (desc->action)
> + synchronize_irq(irq);
> + desc->chip->bus_sync_unlock(irq);
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(disable_slowbus_irq);

Should we also not check that desc->chip->bus_lock is not set for the
regular function disable_irq()?

It seems to me mixing disable_irq() and disable_slowbus_irq() is a
recipe for disaster.

Same for the other slowbus functions of course.
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